Vol. 16 No. 11 | November 2016

ISBN: 1526-5161

editorial.

Cass R. Sunstein

Default rules, taken as such, do not intrude on autonomy, even if they influence people without persuading them. If default rules give people certain rights automatically (such as the right to free speech), they promote autonomy for just that reason. And to the extent that default rules give people the freedom to focus on their most pressing concerns, and thus eliminate a kind of “bandwidth tax,...

target articles.

Alistair Wardrope & Markus Reuber

Most work addressing clinical workers’ professional responsibilities concerns the norms of conduct within established professional–patient relationships, but such responsibilities may extend beyond the clinical context. We explore health workers’ professional responsibilities in such “informal” encounters through the example of a doctor witnessing the misdiagnosis and mistreatmen...

Douglas MacKay & Alexandra Robinson

Governments must determine the legal procedures by which their residents are registered, or can register, as organ donors. Provided that governments recognize that people have a right to determine what happens to their organs after they die, there are four feasible options to choose from: opt-in, opt-out, mandated active choice, and voluntary active choice. We investigate the ethics of these polic...